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Pseudogenes

Ram Samudrala ram at mbisgi.umd.edu
Fri Sep 8 16:45:48 EST 1995


Paul Linehan (linehan at ceph.cephb.fr) wrote:

>They can of course be ancient or recent. They normally arise from
>functional genes and not vice-versa (at least to my knowledge).

If a functional gene arose from a pseudogene, it would not be
classified as a pseudogene.

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